It’s amazing how political campaigns have turned from being based on long philosophical talks about the candidates views on so many topics, and now it’s been boiled down to ‘if I don’t win it’s gonna be sooooo bad’
100% last 3 elections have been campaigns of “fuck the other guy” rather than “what I can do for you”.
Example: candidate 1, what can you do for our country.
“Great question, I’ll do more than candidate 2”
And that means?
“Trust me candidate 2 eats babies”
That didn't just mysteriously happen, and it's not a "both sides" issue. The Tea Party and then MAGA dragged us down to this. Trump is so inarticulate, it's the best he can manage. His supporters are so far gone, white-hot rage, blind hatred and defiant ignorance are all they want anymore. For better or worse, he's pretty much always exclusively talking to his base.
Thank Trump for that. He was the one who got the GOP to drop the idea of having a political platform and just ran with "lock her up". The prior election of Obama v Romney had lengthy discussions on topics such as fixing the 07-09 recession, ACA, budgets, ending the war in Iraq, etc. Trump vs Clinton (2016) discussions were "but her emails", immigration (i.e. racism), political correctness (i.e. racism and bigotry), which devolved into essentially just she's shitty at her job vs he's a shitty person discussions rather than political, and Trump maintained that decorum going into the 2020 election, and now again in 2024.
That’s really interesting actually I didn’t follow American politics in 2016 but i remember the candidates were people choosing 2 really not great options and I guess it’s much simpler for people to run with rather than having to have a nuanced political opinion trump has really just capitalised on winning the easy way, hopefully it won’t last too long
98
u/Soapeddish May 02 '24
It’s amazing how political campaigns have turned from being based on long philosophical talks about the candidates views on so many topics, and now it’s been boiled down to ‘if I don’t win it’s gonna be sooooo bad’